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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE3 thai word break: KLibLoader --> QLibrary
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-09-29 18:56:29
Message-ID: 200709292056.48108.thiago () kde ! org
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Pattara Kiatisevi (list) wrote:
>Right, maybe it's distro problem. But from the upstream point of view,
>is there any particular problem or inferior technical point of using
>QLibrary instead of KLibLoader?

Yes: let's not touch KDE 3 code that is working if the problem is found 
elsewhere.

>>> And for Qt4/KDE4, isn't it better to use QLibrary::resolve("thai", 0,
>>> "th_brk") so that it will go for libthai.so.0
>>> directly, eliminating the need to have libthai.so (which is normally
>>> in development package)?
>>
>> What happens when libthai.so.1 gets released?
>
>When libthai.so.1 gets released, as the major lib number has changed,
>some APIs might have changed in a non backward compatible way,
>hence it's time to look at the Qt/KDE code to make sure that this
>th_brk() function will still work in libthai.so.1, and manually change
>the Qt/KDE code to load version 1.

You're quite right.

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